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Post by foxxdoc on Dec 10, 2020 7:12:22 GMT -8
about 35 years ago I was in Peru with fish collectors. While there I collected bugs and plants too. I collected some bulbs of Ucharis grandiflora; well known as a Christmas Time bloomer. Mine are in bloom; pretty neat after all these years it still puts out bulbs and flowers.
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Post by leptraps on Dec 13, 2020 3:20:11 GMT -8
I was very fortunate to live and work in South Florida, not once, but twice. I reared many species, some more than once. My back yard was full of potted plants and I grew numerous trees. Papya Trees brought several species of Sphinx moths. Frangipanie, likewise.
I once dug up some Canna and kept it in 5 gallon pails. I have a gorgeous series of the Calpodes ethlius (Canna Skipper). Aristolochia vines brought Battus polydamus.
I truly enjoyed my time in South Florida. I have a gorgeous collection of Florida Lepidoptera.
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Post by leptraps on Dec 13, 2020 3:58:18 GMT -8
Speaking of South Florida, the Asterocampa, both clyton and celtis were extremely abundant around Lake Okeechobee, and, very large. I reared them several times.
I have said this before. I truly enjoyed my time in Florida.
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Post by kevinkk on Dec 13, 2020 11:03:26 GMT -8
Getting out collecting does get a person chances to collect plants. I've got Californica darlingtonia grown from seed I collected on the
way back from an overnight trip, being from a state park, digging up the plants wasn't really an option.
Digging up a growing plant isn't easy for any species.
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Post by foxxdoc on Dec 15, 2020 8:17:30 GMT -8
when digging up wild plants in the U.S. get as much surrounding soil as possible to keep it intact. Of course out of the country bring back soil is not permitted.
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Post by tv on Dec 15, 2020 14:31:20 GMT -8
when digging up wild plants in the U.S. get as much surrounding soil as possible to keep it intact. Of course out of the country bring back soil is not permitted.
TOM Whatever you do, don't try to dig up any venus flytraps. You will go to prison |
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Post by gaspipe on Dec 15, 2020 15:46:10 GMT -8
when digging up wild plants in the U.S. get as much surrounding soil as possible to keep it intact. Of course out of the country bring back soil is not permitted.
TOM Whatever you do, don't try to dig up any venus flytraps. You will go to prisonIn California they are releasing murders and pedophiles but dig up the wrong plant and away you go . Only in America. |
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Post by jshuey on Dec 15, 2020 16:22:03 GMT -8
when digging up wild plants in the U.S. get as much surrounding soil as possible to keep it intact. Of course out of the country bring back soil is not permitted.
TOM Whatever you do, don't try to dig up any venus flytraps. You will go to prisonIndeed. As I recall, this poacher hit the some public lands as well as the Green Swamp Preserve - a privately owned and managed nature preserve created to conserver this and other carnivorous species . Literally tens-of-millions of dollars spent to protect the about 15,000 acres of long-leaf pine habitat, and this guy and some friends decided to dig a bunch of them up. A well deserved prison sentence if ever there was one... John |
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Post by leptraps on Dec 16, 2020 13:45:20 GMT -8
Where is the Green Swamp that you mentioned located. Is it eastern North Carolina?
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Post by jshuey on Dec 16, 2020 15:37:34 GMT -8
Where is the Green Swamp that you mentioned located. Is it eastern North Carolina? google "green swamp nature preserve, NC" and you will get the TNC preserve |
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Post by leptraps on Dec 21, 2020 15:36:19 GMT -8
Back in the early 1980's, I was wandering around the eastern half of North Carolina. Ten's of thousands of acres of Pine plantations for the paper pulp industry. In between these plantations were native areas of Pine. Mixed in with areas of cane and White Cedars. The White Cedar is the larval host plant for Callophrys hesseli (Hessel's Harstreak). The coastal population of the Eastern Pine Elfin in are very large. Mix all these in with Atryonopsis hianna. There were other speices of Atrytonopsis, some where unsubscribed at the time.
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Post by kevinkk on Dec 21, 2020 20:16:52 GMT -8
Since I'm already logged in, when I first read the title of this thread, I had no idea what to expect, but it did sound intriguing.
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Post by leptraps on Dec 22, 2020 2:08:39 GMT -8
When I first read the title, "Picked Up While Collecting?? My first thoughts were women and then Law Enforcement. I have experienced both.
It is easier to explain my activities to Law Enforcement than to a Woman. Especially a woman opposed to the collecting of butterflies.
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